List of food cooperatives

The following is a list of food cooperative grocery stores and buyers groups, current and defunct. Many of the second-wave food cooperatives formed in the 1960s and 1970s started as buying clubs.^[1]

This list is not exhaustive, and is limited to notable food cooperatives.

Australia

Alfalfa House, Enmore, Sydney

Ireland

Dublin Food Co-op

Sweden

Kooperativa Förbundet

United Kingdom

United States

4th Street Food Co-op, New York City
Abundance Food Co-op
Belfast Co-op, Belfast Maine
Blue Hill Co-op, Blue Hill Maine
Citizen's Coop, Gainesville, Florida
Consumers' Cooperative of Berkeley, Berkeley, California (defunct)
The Cooperative Grocery, Emeryville, California (defunct)
George Street Co-op, New Brunswick, New Jersey
High Falls Food Co-op, High Falls, New York
Littleton Food Co-op, Littleton, New Hampshire
New Orleans Food Co-op, New Orleans, Louisiana
New Pioneer Food Co-op, Iowa City, Iowa
Park Slope Food Coop, New York City
PCC Natural Markets (Puget Consumers Co-op), Seattle, Washington
People's Food Co-op (Portland), Oregon
Phat Beets Produce, Oakland, California
Rainbow Grocery Cooperative, San Francisco, California
Seward Community Co-op, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op, Sacramento, California
Syracuse Real Food Co-op, Syracuse, New York
Wedge Community Co-op, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Wheatsville Co-op, Austin, Texas
Whole Foods Co-op, Duluth, Minnesota
Willy Street Cooperative, Madison, Wisconsin
Ypsilanti Food Co-op, Ypsilanti, Michigan
Kent Natural Foods Co-op, Kent, Ohio
French Broad Food Co-op, Asheville, North Carolina

References

↑ Puskar-Pasewicz, Margaret, ed. (2010). "Health food stores and food cooperatives". Cultural Encyclopedia of Vegetarianism. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood. p. 127. ISBN 0-313-37557-7.

Cooperatives and mutual organizations

Types of cooperative

By governance

Consumer	Cooperative federation list Cooperative wholesale society

Worker (list)	Employee ownership Workers' self-management Workers' control Workplace democracy Business and employment co-operative

Purchasing	Retailers' cooperative

Other	Social cooperative Agent-owned company

By purpose

Banking	Credit union Mutual savings bank Savings and loan association Building society

Housing	Building Cohousing Student housing Housing society (egalitarian) Intentional community

Agricultural	Collective farming Reforestation Winemaking Wheat pool

Utility (list)	Community wind energy Electric Telephone

Mutual education	Anarchistic free school Homeschool Democratic education Learning by teaching

Mutual insurance	Health insurance cooperative

Other	Food list Recycling

Topics

Identity	Rochdale Principles ICA Statement on the Cooperative Identity

Political and economic theories	Co-operative economics Cooperative federalism Distributism Economic democracy Mutualism Neo-Capitalism Owenism Social enterprise Socialism Socially responsible investing Solidarity economy

Key theorists	G. D. H. Cole Charles Gide David Griffiths William King Robert Owen Friedrich Raiffeisen David Schweickart Rochdale Pioneers Beatrice Webb

By region	Canada Ukraine United Kingdom United States

Organizations	List of cooperatives Worker Energy Federations International Co-operative Alliance Co-operative Party

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